My i5-cs0053cl is identical to this, but doesn't have the dual fan setup...but it has the space for it. Has anyone upgraded to the dual fan that is shown on this video? I know 2 fans would be louder but also cooler I'd think...
@Fahed Sebia Where did you find the fan header part for the dual fan setup the default silver hp with integrated graphics doesn't have the gpu fan header.
My upgrade went as per your demo except the recovery step process failed at about 10%. I was able to hook up the old HD via a USB housing and clone it to the SSD. Everything works great and the PC is nice and "snappy fast". :) Thank you very much for posting this. Fantastic demo.
You just saved me $150 from having a pc center do this… thank you! Excellent tutorial, layman’s terms, slow enough to understand. One questions, should I disconnect the battery before removing the drive?
Taking apart a similar but not indentical HP laptop and your video helped me with those screws hidden under the feet. Wouldn't have thought to check them myself. This laptop had 1 screw under each of the four feet so had to remove them all. Thanks from Australia. 🦘🐨
By far the best instruction I have seen out of at least 9 - 11 videos that I've watched. My laptop is very similar. 14" version and I actually am sitting here having purchased the same SSD yesterday. I did make the recovery stick today. Great detailed steps here. Bought another RAM chip to stick in the empty slot I have. I see you have two, probably 8G each.
Thank you for this! My OEM disk drive was killing performance, to the point I was ready to buy a new laptop. But decided to replace with an SSD after your comments about the OEM drive. Decided right then and there to try an SSD and recover. 100% fixed the issue.
This is the best easy way to install and transfer your data . Thank you sir . Love and like from India 🇮🇳 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳😎😎
Thank you, I'm glad I can help, I looked up for videos on it before I did it for the first time and I couldn't find anyting, that's why I made this video
do you guys recommend this model? does it have overheating problems? I want one for running Cities Skylines, which is not heavy on graphics but makes the CPU run at 100% all the time
I wish you had made this video earlier. I got mine just a few months before you posted this and there were no videos on it at the time. Guess who had to learn the hard way . On the bright side, almost two years later im still in love with it. Still fast as a whistle with no problems. Although Im sure ill need to replace the battery soon.
@@Pozuda I have a full blown desktop PC now, However I absolutely abused this thing. I still have it and occasionally use it for watching movies on the big screen, meetings, and other old editing tasks. I used it to its core. The only think ever wrong with it is that the battery went bad. I got it replaced, and it still gives me a weird error message when I turn it on, but as long as I have it plugged in, its still a great laptop to this day!
Awesome! This computer was a great price at costco for an i7-10th gen, lots or ram, and slim. 5400 rpm hd ruined this computer though. $75 later for a 500gb ssd and its super fast. I had no idea windows recovery was so good for swapping to a smaller HD! Thx for that tip!
Damn man I have opemed up so many laptops and this one stumped me for a while......thank you for making what SHOULD be a powerful laptop, actually that. Ive had 100% disk use for too long and now it is finally the machine I always needed it to be.
There is an active Free NVME M.2 SSD Slot right beside the hard drive you removed. You could have just used that and leave the initial HDD as storage as well.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I just received my Samsung 1TB SSD and USB stick to make the recovery OS and popped in the new drive just like your video shows and BOOM....I have a new fast laptop. THANK YOU SOOOOO much. Outstanding job.
A very helpful video. I have no intention of doing it myself but I love to know what the professionals will be doing when I take it to them. This was clear and easy to follow and showed me that for someone used to doing it there isn't too much they could easily screw up. Also...boy the difference a couple years makes! I'll be getting the 870 EVO 1tb (maybe the 2tb) and also at microcenter it's $65 (2tb is $120)
Thank you for this tutorial. I was actually looking for a video that would show me how to open the laptop so that I could access the battery. This showed me exactly how to do that. But what a pain in the rear! Do you (or anybody else) have any idea why HP made the laptop so difficult to open?
I have an Hp Pavilion 15-cc023cl and it looks almost like this one. But I followed all your steps and it works like a charm. I really recommend replacing your hdd with an ssd.
It's not a bad device. Our client bought one and we did this, but our client client wished to use Ubuntu and it worked like a charm. Very fast over all for a consumer product. But yes certainly this thing was held back by a spinning hard drive. But, it's also much cheaper then the Envy or probook series. Good job!
Hook It Up Ubuntu Linux, it's an open source operating system. I prefer Mint Linux personally but we have a lot of business clients now moving to Linux in their environments given the risks involved with Windows 10 and Intel. Others are having us setup Windows 10 with Linux environments pre-installed that can work with their Linux servers. I can't blame them. It's free and you can study and modify the software itself to meet your needs/wishes. You control your computer again, vs Microsoft controlling your stuff. it's good stuff!
The SATA ribbon cable is reletively easy to remove from the motherboard, Just lift up on the retaining tab and pull it out. I'd recommend you do this before attempting to pull the harddrive out and disconnecting the main SATA end. Less likely to damage cable/motherboard connector. ;)
It looks like you have an M2.0 slot on your laptop, you can just add an M2.0 SSD in your laptop, and then copy the whole hard drive to your new SSD. The original HDD can be formatted later. In this way, you'll have double store space on your laptop.
You could do that but it may be daunting to the average Joe, I'm mostly doing these videos for the average person who doesn't have in depth knowledge or confidence, or maybe first timers. I do however have some other videos that are completely end up off the wall, but in those cases nobody would ever attempt to carry out those procedures unless they already knew how to get to the components, until I get to the components they would already have to have in-depth knowledge of those subjects if that makes any sense. For instance I have a video coming on how to balance piston assemblies.
@@HookItUp Can you show us a video of adding additional fan, I have the HP Pavilion 15-cw007nm version. It has only one fan inside and it's "airplane lift off" kind of loud. NO DUST IN IT.
I have an HP 14 in ce3064st and will be doing procedure. Already have 1TB HDD in place so I’m just adding a Samsung 970 evo plus PCIe nvme m2 500GB SSD (Damn that was mouthful lol) Im a first timer so thank you very much for this video. Getting the outer shell thing off is gonna be the terror part for me cuz I don’t wanna break anything and it’s pretty much clip/snap on after those screws come off ya kno
Great video, so easy to do w/o extra cables etc to buy. FYI - you might wanna add a close up of the 'clips' on the undercarriage so we know what we are looking for when opening up the computer. I ended up breaking one on my computer -no big deal, its still snug. Thanks again.
Great video and exactly what I was looking for. The back on my laptop didn't come off nearly as easily as your video showed and I may have given up if I didn't see your video. Thank you so much!
Thank you, it's completely worth the money, it makes the entire PC blazing-fast. I'm thinking that's how they keep the cost of the laptop low. But I'm glad it helped
Thank you. While my HP was a bit easier to remove the back, your explanations helped a lot. Unfortunately a credit card wasn't stiff enough to pry off the back but a very thin bladed slotted screwdriver worked OK. Added a Samsung EVO 860 and cloned using Acronis True Image 2021. So far so good. Thanks again ... a really great video.
I got a new HP laptop and had an "accident" I guess so much for the warranty? A tall glass started to tip over but still splashed some water on the keyboard before I caught it half way. Never the less, even though the computer was on "standby" mode at the time, it turned off and will not turn on! Very vulnerable it seems! What happened inside? I used to be a service tech myself for alarms and stuff. I just Subbed by the way
Clear, right to the point. I like the different angle recording, well done. I just have a small question here. Is it okay if i rely on the partition recovery located in my hard drive instead of making another one on an external drive? ( I couldn't access the "create recovery drive" setting for some reason, it does not open at all)
Tu video me sirvió mucho. Gracias! Oye note que tu tienes dos ventiladores. La mía solo tiene uno. Puedo saber dónde compraste el otro o que modelo es?
HDD or SSD is very easy to upgrade to any amount. 1. For RAM: Go to www.Crucial.com, 2. Second, go to search bar and search compatible upgrades and click the link with same name as search. 3. Then put in you computer name and find your model and then it will tell you max supported Ram
thanks for such an amazing video on SSD upgradation, but should't we loss the W10 license or key for the original one ? also can we use the NVME M.2 for C drive ?
I followed everything you said and now my laptop wont start. I took it to a repair guy and he says the motherboard is gone and cant be fixed. Are you aware of where I might find a similar motherboard ? I looked all over the HP site and there doesnt seem to be anything there. I dont know what I am looking for except motherboard. thanks
Excellent video. Thanks for the help. I was primarily concerned about how to open the laptop without damaging the rubber feet or the back. My model has 128GB M.2 SSD and no HDD which means no HDD cable or brackets. I'm upgrading the M.2 SSD to 1TB and changing RAM to 16GB. I would have liked to also install a 1TB HDD but cable and mounting brackets are only available from HP official suppliers at crazy prices. Maybe in a year or two parts might be available at decent prices. I'll look at adding a 1TB HDD or SSD then.
@@Olaa974 i found the braket and connector on ebay for 50$ but my computer wont boot with the ssd installed. it workes just with a HDD.. and i cant seem to find any information about this online.......
Lovely tutorial. Question.. I have a wired printer attached to the laptop and initially used the accompanying cd to install the software. If i made a bootable drive, would that transfer the printer software over as i cant find the cd and Brother doesn't show it on their homepage anymore.. Thanks in advance
Hi. You should perhaps point out the M2 SSD port which is just above the 2.5" HDD. Also. Could you please list the part number of your HDD flexcable and the fans? I broke my SSD port so I'm going to use the HDD port but there is no cable included and the one I ordered didn't work...
thankyou for this video i have one query that while upgrading can i add another ram of same sepcifications upside down in the same slot? that whether i can add the new ram along with the previous one- is there space for 2 or just one? or i just have an option of replacing the previous ram with the new one?
Thank you for the video. Used it to upgrade a HP 15 Pavilion CW series.. which is the exact same exterior just that the inside is an AMD processor. Suggest viewer to paste the 2 rubber feet which u peel out on the back cover after removing. To paste it back exactly after replacing the screws when done.
lol, just baught a used cs-3023ca. waiting on delivery and looking up upgrade paths... Heya Warped Perception :), got your voice in the first sentence :) haven't even looked at the digits. Thanks for the help man.
Thank you for this video. It has been super helpful! As I am working on mine, I realize that my screwdrivers are too big (even the smallest). What kind of / what size screwdriver do you recommend for this?
@@richardbroad2848 What do you mean? The backplate of the laptop is just screwed in and pops off by pushing the little clips in. This laptop is actually very easy to take apart compared to others.
@@Psyberify this was some time ago, but, pushing the little clips in by prying into the side of the backplate to get it loose was a nightmare the first time around, and i left lasting damage on one side while trying to do so. Subsequent times were easier. Maybe i am not great at these things, or, did i just get a tough cookie? Maybe both!
This was a great Tutorial, was struggling getting the back cover off and not I got it, but I do have a slightly different question. I want to upgrade the RAM, mine currently has 12GB, and would like to upragde it to 32GB or even 64GB, if that is possible? Will this increase the speed even more than just switching to the SSD drive?
No it doesn't, changing the RAM just will help you to have more programs working at the same time. Switching to the SSD drive will help you to other things like the video shows to run the OS faster, or run things faster.
@@joeneubauer3208 I haven't tried that out, honestly. However, I'm pretty sure that you can make an NVMe drive, but that will probably void a warranty.
A recovery drive will only restore the OS, if you want the contents of the entire drive you have to clone it. Clonezilla is free Samsung Magician is free too but you need to clone to Samsung drives. Acronis True Image work well but you need a paid version unless it comes with your new drive.
$100 for a 500GB NVMe m.2 drive...kept the old hard drive in it for storage...just used the downloadable Samsung migration software to clone everything over...but thanks for the teardown walkthrough!
Excellent tutorial, will be upgrading to ssd end of summer, maybe sooner. Currently using only 100gb + 18gb recovery of total 2tb hard drive. obviously don't need 2tb. Could I put a 1tb or less ssd in the machine or piggyback an ssd as mentioned below for speed for the other things I do such as websearch etc, really don't need massive storage at all, reason I ask is a friend who is a wrinkly nerd like me but is a computer whizz says I need to have equivalent ssd to do info transfer from hard drive. Once again many thanks for the info, enjoyed watching the process.
Nice video there, thumbs up. Please i don't know much about laptops yet i want to know. Can i use the M.2 NVME & a 1TB hdd together? Im using HP Pavilion 15-cs0053cl.
You forgot to re-format the hard drive before taking it out. The recovery partition on it can only be removed in the machine it lived in (without using additional re-formatting software to do it in another laptop). I had no end of problems with "refurbished" machines for that reason.
Thank you for the video but you missed the M.2 MNVe SSD slot right next to the factory HHD.. I have a HP 15-cs0012c. I put in a lower end WD BlueM.2 SSD that has a read speed of 2,400 MB/s. The Samsung 970 EVO is 3,400 MB/s. Now I have a blazing SSD C drive and a 1TB data drive.
I have a HP Pavilion - 15-Cc123cl with an HDD as primary bootable drive and a 256 GB SSD. The system is really "painfully" slow and I have been recommended to upgrade the HDD to SSD. I am planning to replace the HDD with the Samsung 980 M2 SSD... The surgery :-) is scheduled to begin in a few :> ... following this video for the guided opera
I upgraded my HP Pavilion 15 cs3073cl today. The plastic cover was not that easy to remove as shown in the video using a credit card - had to use a flat screwdriver which resulted in some minor dents on the plastic cover. I didn't remove the mechanical hard disk - I just added a Crucial P2 500GB NVMe SSD for $70 and then made clean Windows install directly on SSD which gets rid of the bloatware as well. System boots in about 8-9 seconds after power on. I reformatted the 1TB mechanical disk to keep my files there.
On top of the Harddrive is a NVMe harddrive slot, the newer versions have there a 256GB Toshiba kbg30zmv256g bg3 nvme harddrive installed just as windows boot drive.
I wish I had seen this instead of putting up with the Toshiba piece of crap shipped with my Pavilion 15t-cs000 for couple years - I finally got rid of the hard drive and used a Crucial P5 Plus NVMe SSD stick instead and the difference is night and day! I didn't use your video even though it's very good because HP Support now has an official video on repairing this laptop
Hi, Thanks for this video, I have same Pavilion series laptop with AMD Ryzen 2500, and I wanted to see how it looks from inside. Your video helped me there haha I've a question, if you could help I'd be really grateful. Is it okay to use laptop while plugged in (100% charged)? How does it affect the battery in long run? I've been looking for the answer from last many days but everyone has different views on this. As you own a same series laptop and also doing some pro work there, your advice will be of great help. Thanks :)
The fact that the model is the same doesn't mean anything about how the battery works. It is however prefered to charge the battery of any device with a lithium ion battery to 90% and then stop. But you can just change the battery by yourself quite cheaply when this one goes bad.
My i5-cs0053cl is identical to this, but doesn't have the dual fan setup...but it has the space for it. Has anyone upgraded to the dual fan that is shown on this video? I know 2 fans would be louder but also cooler I'd think...
the blue one has a gpu in it and the silver one is just integrated graphics the blue one is also more expensive
It's not louder at all, and my laptop never heats, so it's a win win situation
@Fahed Sebia Where did you find the fan header part for the dual fan setup the default silver hp with integrated graphics doesn't have the gpu fan header.
@@unicorns8418 Blue? Silver? What are you talking about? I also have only 1 fan and supposed integrated graphics.
@@admirmehic8552 That means it's the silver one
My upgrade went as per your demo except the recovery step process failed at about 10%.
I was able to hook up the old HD via a USB housing and clone it to the SSD.
Everything works great and the PC is nice and "snappy fast". :)
Thank you very much for posting this. Fantastic demo.
I just changed my HDD to a SSD 870 EVO following this steps for the same laptop, it’s indeed faster, thanks a lot.
You just saved me $150 from having a pc center do this… thank you! Excellent tutorial, layman’s terms, slow enough to understand.
One questions, should I disconnect the battery before removing the drive?
No, you don't need to.
Taking apart a similar but not indentical HP laptop and your video helped me with those screws hidden under the feet. Wouldn't have thought to check them myself. This laptop had 1 screw under each of the four feet so had to remove them all. Thanks from Australia. 🦘🐨
By far the best instruction I have seen out of at least 9 - 11 videos that I've watched. My laptop is very similar. 14" version and I actually am sitting here having purchased the same SSD yesterday. I did make the recovery stick today. Great detailed steps here. Bought another RAM chip to stick in the empty slot I have. I see you have two, probably 8G each.
what RAM component? is it universal, the sticks? I wanna make sure they are compatible with my own. I have the same build. "15-cc563st"
Thank you for this! My OEM disk drive was killing performance, to the point I was ready to buy a new laptop. But decided to replace with an SSD after your comments about the OEM drive. Decided right then and there to try an SSD and recover. 100% fixed the issue.
If you can go with NVME it will feel like a different laptop
great demo, just one more question: if you want to keep all your documents that you had before you upgraded your laptop, how do you do that?
Dude you are a life saver, was replacing my hdd and I followed every single step and it worked god bless
Very well done. I have installed SSDs in PC towers but never a laptop... Big help for me. Much appreciated. Thank you.
This is the best easy way to install and transfer your data . Thank you sir . Love and like from India 🇮🇳 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳😎😎
Thank you, I'm glad I can help, I looked up for videos on it before I did it for the first time and I couldn't find anyting, that's why I made this video
how to put An SSD disk and recover to factory windows. a whole new life for my HP15-cc533nz!
Thanks a lot dude for this well done video tutorial !
It's crazy how much faster it is, it feels like a desktop.
do you guys recommend this model? does it have overheating problems? I want one for running Cities Skylines, which is not heavy on graphics but makes the CPU run at 100% all the time
I wish you had made this video earlier. I got mine just a few months before you posted this and there were no videos on it at the time. Guess who had to learn the hard way . On the bright side, almost two years later im still in love with it. Still fast as a whistle with no problems. Although Im sure ill need to replace the battery soon.
I dont remember making this comment but guess what. Im in the process of replacing this pc's battery right now lmao
@@wolfhowlex How is it holdin up?
@@Pozuda I have a full blown desktop PC now, However I absolutely abused this thing. I still have it and occasionally use it for watching movies on the big screen, meetings, and other old editing tasks. I used it to its core. The only think ever wrong with it is that the battery went bad. I got it replaced, and it still gives me a weird error message when I turn it on, but as long as I have it plugged in, its still a great laptop to this day!
@@wolfhowlex Amazing stuff!
Mine is in the exact same situation, except it makes cricket like noises if I turn up the speaker 25% volume or above.
@@Pozuda OH that's strange. Mine doesn't have the defect, and I accidentally spilled water in it one time 😅
Thanks for taking time to document this. The opening case part was extremely helpful!
Your very welcome
Awesome! This computer was a great price at costco for an i7-10th gen, lots or ram, and slim. 5400 rpm hd ruined this computer though. $75 later for a 500gb ssd and its super fast. I had no idea windows recovery was so good for swapping to a smaller HD! Thx for that tip!
Completely agree!!. That's the exact reason I picked it up and swap out the hard drive.
Damn man I have opemed up so many laptops and this one stumped me for a while......thank you for making what SHOULD be a powerful laptop, actually that. Ive had 100% disk use for too long and now it is finally the machine I always needed it to be.
There is an active Free NVME M.2 SSD Slot right beside the hard drive you removed. You could have just used that and leave the initial HDD as storage as well.
there is an active free for nvme or sata ???.
@@long5401 nvme is supported
Chuck Dee great tutorial, thanks!
A ssd is faster though the computer only has a 5400 rpm hdd
@@MysticCaravan Does the mechanical hdd always spin or will it spin down if not accessed for awhile, assuming an m.2 ssd is added.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I just received my Samsung 1TB SSD and USB stick to make the recovery OS and popped in the new drive just like your video shows and BOOM....I have a new fast laptop. THANK YOU SOOOOO much. Outstanding job.
A very helpful video. I have no intention of doing it myself but I love to know what the professionals will be doing when I take it to them. This was clear and easy to follow and showed me that for someone used to doing it there isn't too much they could easily screw up. Also...boy the difference a couple years makes! I'll be getting the 870 EVO 1tb (maybe the 2tb) and also at microcenter it's $65 (2tb is $120)
Thanks for the video. Really struggling to get the back off even after removing all the screws.
Luke Williams how did you get it off I can’t seem to figure it out
There are snap clips all way around. Gotta carefully go around entire back
Thank you for this tutorial. I was actually looking for a video that would show me how to open the laptop so that I could access the battery. This showed me exactly how to do that. But what a pain in the rear! Do you (or anybody else) have any idea why HP made the laptop so difficult to open?
I have an Hp Pavilion 15-cc023cl and it looks almost like this one. But I followed all your steps and it works like a charm. I really recommend replacing your hdd with an ssd.
Thanks, that was EXACTLY what I needed. My HP Pavilion just went out of warranty, so now it has an SSD.
Lmao, mine too and hdd immediately took a dump.
@@mikeschmidt4800 yeah my died today. But it started with long boot times and programs crashing left and right. Ill have to save up for an ssd i guess
This is one of the best tear down videos ever. You sir, are awesome!!
Now I know what's inside my Laptop. I can't still open the back cover because it's still under warranty. Thank you for this video.
It's not a bad device. Our client bought one and we did this, but our client client wished to use Ubuntu and it worked like a charm. Very fast over all for a consumer product. But yes certainly this thing was held back by a spinning hard drive. But, it's also much cheaper then the Envy or probook series. Good job!
Thank you. What is Ubuntu ?
Hook It Up Ubuntu Linux, it's an open source operating system. I prefer Mint Linux personally but we have a lot of business clients now moving to Linux in their environments given the risks involved with Windows 10 and Intel. Others are having us setup Windows 10 with Linux environments pre-installed that can work with their Linux servers. I can't blame them. It's free and you can study and modify the software itself to meet your needs/wishes. You control your computer again, vs Microsoft controlling your stuff. it's good stuff!
Hmm where I’m from this costs just as much as the envy. How much does it cost for you
@@aryanvaid3795 I would honestly think your right on this. The Envy is a good value when you consider it's construction.
R.a. Wheeler yup the envy feels premium even it comes under the budget category
Great video. Thank you for showing how to get into this laptop without breaking anything. Taking the laptop all the way to recovery was also helpful.
Thanks!, Glad to help. Yeah the recovery makes the whole process very quick and easy, and believe it or not a lot of people don't know about it.
The SATA ribbon cable is reletively easy to remove from the motherboard, Just lift up on the retaining tab and pull it out. I'd recommend you do this before attempting to pull the harddrive out and disconnecting the main SATA end. Less likely to damage cable/motherboard connector. ;)
It looks like you have an M2.0 slot on your laptop, you can just add an M2.0 SSD in your laptop, and then copy the whole hard drive to your new SSD. The original HDD can be formatted later. In this way, you'll have double store space on your laptop.
You could do that but it may be daunting to the average Joe, I'm mostly doing these videos for the average person who doesn't have in depth knowledge or confidence, or maybe first timers. I do however have some other videos that are completely end up off the wall, but in those cases nobody would ever attempt to carry out those procedures unless they already knew how to get to the components, until I get to the components they would already have to have in-depth knowledge of those subjects if that makes any sense. For instance I have a video coming on how to balance piston assemblies.
@@HookItUp Can you show us a video of adding additional fan, I have the HP Pavilion 15-cw007nm version. It has only one fan inside and it's "airplane lift off" kind of loud. NO DUST IN IT.
I have an HP 14 in ce3064st and will be doing procedure.
Already have 1TB HDD in place so I’m just adding a Samsung 970 evo plus PCIe nvme m2 500GB SSD (Damn that was mouthful lol)
Im a first timer so thank you very much for this video. Getting the outer shell thing off is gonna be the terror part for me cuz I don’t wanna break anything and it’s pretty much clip/snap on after those screws come off ya kno
Thank you so much for this video. I followed it to the tee, and now my laptop is a beast. I could not be happier, thank you again!
I have bought the NVME M2 SSD and will take out the Hdd and follow the same procedure as showed in the video. Thanks for the video 👍
Just leave the 1TB HDD in there for storage. It's a great Toshiba drive.
Thank you so much for this video! It made a daunting task so much easier! Honestly, the hardest part was removing the back of the computer!
Nice video. Might upgrade my laptop. How do I find out about my hard drive in my laptop?
Well done thanks, would additional RAM help with laptop speed?
It's really nice video...could you please let me know what kind of toolkit i need to open the laptop back cover
Great video, so easy to do w/o extra cables etc to buy. FYI - you might wanna add a close up of the 'clips' on the undercarriage so we know what we are looking for when opening up the computer. I ended up breaking one on my computer -no big deal, its still snug. Thanks again.
Thanks for this instruction video, just one question. for making the recovery ,What size is required for the USB drive ?
Great video and exactly what I was looking for. The back on my laptop didn't come off nearly as easily as your video showed and I may have given up if I didn't see your video. Thank you so much!
Great tutorial, how many Ram slot does it have available?
Two.
Thanks, very well put together tutorial. Now off shopping for an SSD
Thank you, it's completely worth the money, it makes the entire PC blazing-fast. I'm thinking that's how they keep the cost of the laptop low. But I'm glad it helped
I'm off to buy one too
@@HookItUp sir. Pls reply
What are the name of other two cable which is in the side of hhd cable ...
And what's their uses
FANTASTIC JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My HDD 1TB in this laptop just died and I will give this a try. Outstanding job. Thank you. I subscribed too.
Thank you. While my HP was a bit easier to remove the back, your explanations helped a lot. Unfortunately a credit card wasn't stiff enough to pry off the back but a very thin bladed slotted screwdriver worked OK. Added a Samsung EVO 860 and cloned using Acronis True Image 2021. So far so good. Thanks again ... a really great video.
Fantastic video, thorough and explained simply and practically. Cheers
I got a new HP laptop and had an "accident" I guess so much for the warranty?
A tall glass started to tip over but still splashed some water on the keyboard before I caught it half way.
Never the less, even though the computer was on "standby" mode at the time, it turned off and will not turn on!
Very vulnerable it seems! What happened inside? I used to be a service tech myself for alarms and stuff.
I just Subbed by the way
Clear, right to the point. I like the different angle recording, well done. I just have a small question here. Is it okay if i rely on the partition recovery located in my hard drive instead of making another one on an external drive? ( I couldn't access the "create recovery drive" setting for some reason, it does not open at all)
Tu video me sirvió mucho. Gracias!
Oye note que tu tienes dos ventiladores. La mía solo tiene uno. Puedo saber dónde compraste el otro o que modelo es?
Fantastic video, done so well, explained everything in layman's way. Very useful. Thanks so much Sir!
this is quite helpful. I have a new version of this one for 2020.. so I think this gives me an idea how to deal with mine. Thank you
Thank you ! Does this upgrade lets the battery to be alive for more time?
Thanks for your tutorial, it was amazing!!! I just have one question... How do you know what capacity accept your mother board about HDD, SDD or RAM?
HDD or SSD is very easy to upgrade to any amount.
1. For RAM: Go to www.Crucial.com,
2. Second, go to search bar and search compatible upgrades and click the link with same name as search.
3. Then put in you computer name and find your model and then it will tell you max supported Ram
To find ram speed, Go to task manager and click performance tab. Then click on memory tab and you will see speed on right side
thanks for such an amazing video on SSD upgradation, but should't we loss the W10 license or key for the original one ?
also can we use the NVME M.2 for C drive ?
your welcome, you shouldn't lose the key if you make a recovery drive first.
No, you loose the key only with a new mainboard.
However it's faster cloning the whole disk.
Thx a lot wat about installing an operating system on ur hard disk.
Should we do as you said in the video
I followed everything you said and now my laptop wont start. I took it to a repair guy and he says the motherboard is gone and cant be fixed. Are you aware of where I might find a similar motherboard ? I looked all over the HP site and there doesnt seem to be anything there. I dont know what I am looking for except motherboard. thanks
Thank you, I was having trouble getting that back panel off, you show how perfectly, thanks again
What size was that flash drive used to create the recovery drive?
I was gonna ask the same question...
Short, Sweet and to the point! Excellent tutorial! Thanks so much for a great job 👌
Excellent video. Thanks for the help. I was primarily concerned about how to open the laptop without damaging the rubber feet or the back.
My model has 128GB M.2 SSD and no HDD which means no HDD cable or brackets. I'm upgrading the M.2 SSD to 1TB and changing RAM to 16GB.
I would have liked to also install a 1TB HDD but cable and mounting brackets are only available from HP official suppliers at crazy prices. Maybe in a year or two parts might be available at decent prices. I'll look at adding a 1TB HDD or SSD then.
Same problem here, no brackets and cable. I did find a few on aliexpres under 20 dollar. Search for HP PAVILION 15-C FFC connecter
@@ItzLnX Do you know the reference number? Im considering buying the CS1008NP that comes the 128 md ssd but i dont know if i need the brackets.
Hi! any updates? i have the same problem with the brackets & cable
@@Olaa974 i found the braket and connector on ebay for 50$ but my computer wont boot with the ssd installed. it workes just with a HDD.. and i cant seem to find any information about this online.......
Lovely tutorial. Question.. I have a wired printer attached to the laptop and initially used the accompanying cd to install the software. If i made a bootable drive, would that transfer the printer software over as i cant find the cd and Brother doesn't show it on their homepage anymore.. Thanks in advance
Such a great video! Thank you so much! But, may I know that the battery code for this series is HT03XL, right?
Thank you for a great tutorial video on changing the internal drive of a hp laptop.
Hi. You should perhaps point out the M2 SSD port which is just above the 2.5" HDD. Also. Could you please list the part number of your HDD flexcable and the fans? I broke my SSD port so I'm going to use the HDD port but there is no cable included and the one I ordered didn't work...
i found this usefull, but please can i pair both ssd and hdd together, using the ssd as boot drive?
thankyou for this video i have one query that while upgrading can i add another ram of same sepcifications upside down in the same slot? that whether i can add the new ram along with the previous one- is there space for 2 or just one? or i just have an option of replacing the previous ram with the new one?
Thank you for the video. Used it to upgrade a HP 15 Pavilion CW series.. which is the exact same exterior just that the inside is an AMD processor. Suggest viewer to paste the 2 rubber feet which u peel out on the back cover after removing. To paste it back exactly after replacing the screws when done.
Nice, sorry about that I thought that was included in the video, if you remove them and keep them clean they go right back in place.
Do the CW series have the same interior when it comes to changing the drive or the RAM?
lol, just baught a used cs-3023ca. waiting on delivery and looking up upgrade paths... Heya Warped Perception :), got your voice in the first sentence :) haven't even looked at the digits.
Thanks for the help man.
Thank you for this video. It has been super helpful! As I am working on mine, I realize that my screwdrivers are too big (even the smallest). What kind of / what size screwdriver do you recommend for this?
Dollar tree sells a kit of 5 screwdrivers of various types that work really well for this stuff. They're yellow and black and thin.
Thank you!!! I'm struggling to pry the back off now XD
Theyve designed these not to be opened ever without damage. Worst laptop ive ever had to open.
@@richardbroad2848 What do you mean? The backplate of the laptop is just screwed in and pops off by pushing the little clips in. This laptop is actually very easy to take apart compared to others.
@@Psyberify this was some time ago, but, pushing the little clips in by prying into the side of the backplate to get it loose was a nightmare the first time around, and i left lasting damage on one side while trying to do so. Subsequent times were easier. Maybe i am not great at these things, or, did i just get a tough cookie? Maybe both!
Hi thanks for this info can you tell me where the Cmos battery is located? Thanks
This was a great Tutorial, was struggling getting the back cover off and not I got it, but I do have a slightly different question. I want to upgrade the RAM, mine currently has 12GB, and would like to upragde it to 32GB or even 64GB, if that is possible? Will this increase the speed even more than just switching to the SSD drive?
No it doesn't, changing the RAM just will help you to have more programs working at the same time. Switching to the SSD drive will help you to other things like the video shows to run the OS faster, or run things faster.
Man, what a difference! I'm planning on adding an optane drive, since that costed a lot less than an SSD for me
Ssd are faster
@@alexpadillayt Actually, Optane drives are NVMe which is much faster than SATA SSDs
@@markdawson25 thank you for the information
Were you able to add the M.2 / NVMe and make it the primary boot? Some of the HP docs seem to indicate it can only be a secondary drive.
@@joeneubauer3208 I haven't tried that out, honestly. However, I'm pretty sure that you can make an NVMe drive, but that will probably void a warranty.
Thanks you so much! I needed to open my laptop due to a problem with the fan (silver version)
Extremely Detailed tutorial! big THANKS!
Would be great to have more information on the hard drive's actual sata connector or where to find parts. I ordered two and none of them fit.
These instructions were great to get the bottom off to clean my fan Thanks
Does is have a NVMe slot aswell in case i want to keep my original?
I have the same question, as I saw this laptop has a NVMe slot at left of the HDD
But I don't sure
Thanks it was very useful! Cheers from Argentina (south America).
Will this install all the previous software and files on the old computer? I'm watching the recovery and it looks like a brand new Windows install.
A recovery drive will only restore the OS, if you want the contents of the entire drive you have to clone it. Clonezilla is free Samsung Magician is free too but you need to clone to Samsung drives. Acronis True Image work well but you need a paid version unless it comes with your new drive.
$100 for a 500GB NVMe m.2 drive...kept the old hard drive in it for storage...just used the downloadable Samsung migration software to clone everything over...but thanks for the teardown walkthrough!
Good video, greetings, friend. Excuse me could you tell me what is the part number of the heat sink?
Beautiful laptop
Excellent instructions. Just removed my hard drives.
Hlo sir
Can u tell me
What are the name of other two cabel, which is in side of the hhd cable ...
And what they used for
one of them is to read the usb and the other is to procces data from ssd to motherboard
@@rxtr1172 no
One is for keyboard backlight
And other is for sd card reader
mothish velaan nah mate. The backlight is above the motherboard that is with the keyboard.if u look close enough u can see the usb reader on the right
@@rxtr1172 no no ....
Backlight cable is at the side of keyboard cable
Excellent tutorial, will be upgrading to ssd end of summer, maybe sooner. Currently using only 100gb + 18gb recovery of total 2tb hard drive. obviously don't need 2tb. Could I put a 1tb or less ssd in the machine or piggyback an ssd as mentioned below for speed for the other things I do such as websearch etc, really don't need massive storage at all, reason I ask is a friend who is a wrinkly nerd like me but is a computer whizz says I need to have equivalent ssd to do info transfer from hard drive. Once again many thanks for the info, enjoyed watching the process.
Nice video there, thumbs up. Please i don't know much about laptops yet i want to know. Can i use the M.2 NVME & a 1TB hdd together? Im using HP Pavilion 15-cs0053cl.
I think yes, in the video appears to be a m.2 slot, I think this is a 2280 form type
from comments on this laptop's section, it says that the laptop does not recognise the M.2 SSD in the BIOS
does anyone know how the rubber feet feel after put back on? I have been wanting to upgrade my laptop but I do not want the feet coming lose
How much GB ram do you use and which is your processor
For traveling, can you insert a sim card with this laptop pc for internet access?
Thank you! This seems like a much better (and cheaper) option than buying a new laptop.
But it was a new laptop :)
Is a little wait worth replacing an entire laptop??
You forgot to re-format the hard drive before taking it out. The recovery partition on it can only be removed in the machine it lived in (without using additional re-formatting software to do it in another laptop). I had no end of problems with "refurbished" machines for that reason.
it can be easily formated in command prompt with diskpart
I like your video, You don't how much you help me. You keep my time and safe my laptop 😅. I LOVE YOUR VIDEO ♥️❣
Thank you for the video but you missed the M.2 MNVe SSD slot right next to the factory HHD.. I have a HP 15-cs0012c. I put in a lower end WD BlueM.2 SSD that has a read speed of 2,400 MB/s. The Samsung 970 EVO is 3,400 MB/s. Now I have a blazing SSD C drive and a 1TB data drive.
I have a HP Pavilion - 15-Cc123cl with an HDD as primary bootable drive and a 256 GB SSD. The system is really "painfully" slow and I have been recommended to upgrade the HDD to SSD.
I am planning to replace the HDD with the Samsung 980 M2 SSD...
The surgery :-) is scheduled to begin in a few :> ... following this video for the guided opera
Thanks for this, is it possible to add a Graphics Card to this pc
Great 👍 video , Any video of how to replace HP 15-dw0083wm motherboard ? Thank you 🙏 💐
I upgraded my HP Pavilion 15 cs3073cl today. The plastic cover was not that easy to remove as shown in the video using a credit card - had to use a flat screwdriver which resulted in some minor dents on the plastic cover. I didn't remove the mechanical hard disk - I just added a Crucial P2 500GB NVMe SSD for $70 and then made clean Windows install directly on SSD which gets rid of the bloatware as well. System boots in about 8-9 seconds after power on. I reformatted the 1TB mechanical disk to keep my files there.
On top of the Harddrive is a NVMe harddrive slot, the newer versions have there a 256GB Toshiba kbg30zmv256g bg3 nvme harddrive installed just as windows boot drive.
I wish I had seen this instead of putting up with the Toshiba piece of crap shipped with my Pavilion 15t-cs000 for couple years - I finally got rid of the hard drive and used a Crucial P5 Plus NVMe SSD stick instead and the difference is night and day! I didn't use your video even though it's very good because HP Support now has an official video on repairing this laptop
The best way to do is creating a system image to backup OS and data.... How come some tech people don't care or don't know about the user's data....
Thank you, great video, needing to check cooling fans & this nailed it!
Hi,
Thanks for this video, I have same Pavilion series laptop with AMD Ryzen 2500, and I wanted to see how it looks from inside. Your video helped me there haha
I've a question, if you could help I'd be really grateful.
Is it okay to use laptop while plugged in (100% charged)? How does it affect the battery in long run?
I've been looking for the answer from last many days but everyone has different views on this. As you own a same series laptop and also doing some pro work there, your advice will be of great help.
Thanks :)
The fact that the model is the same doesn't mean anything about how the battery works. It is however prefered to charge the battery of any device with a lithium ion battery to 90% and then stop. But you can just change the battery by yourself quite cheaply when this one goes bad.
@@BrevityBuzz Thanks
Please do more of hardware videos
I love this video it has helped me a lot thank you